Greetings, Even though many places in our community are currently shut down, the trails and parks in West Bend are open. For the safety of all in the state, Governor Evers issued his “Safer at Home” order in mid-March. Since then the number of people...

By now most of you have heard that our 33rd annual Wild Flower Sale has been cancelled for this year because of the Covid-19 virus outbreak. While many will be disappointed, given the guidelines from our Governor and the progression of the outbreak, the decision was...

Greetings, As winter is finally upon us, we are well into removing invasive species from our pine plantation. A contractor from the West Bend Elevator has been using a forestry mower to remove the underbrush, almost all of which was invasive buckthorn. Before I...

A sad note to all of our members and volunteers. The founder and first president of the Friends of Lac Lawrann Conservancy, Dan Kline, has passed away. Dan worked to get the organization incorporated in the spring of 1994 and was tireless in his efforts to run and...

“ A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in”. This quote drew my attention as I was reading an article that came to my inbox a few days ago. While it has been attributed to many societies, individuals and places, it...

September already! Usually my notes start with a short natural history of something I’ve seen recently at Lac Lawrann. And while the temperatures are still indicating summer, a lot of changes are happening at Lac Lawrann and that is what I will focus on today. The...